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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
prove to be most productive and suit you 
best in every particular are the ones you 
naturally will select as your leaders. 
Try it, and see if it does not prove to be 
the best investment you ever have made. 
It's Quality, Not Size, That Counts 
WE have always maintained that the size 
of a plant was no test of its vitality; 
that it does not matter how 
small the plants may be provided 
it comes from a well-developed 
mother plant. In order that oth- 
ers might be convinced that this 
statement is correct, 
we went to our propa- 
gating beds April 7, 
1910, and selected two 
of the smallest plants 
we could find on the 
farm; one Warfield and 
one Senator Dunlap, and had both 
of them photographed on that 
date. Figure 1 shows the War- 
field; Figure 2, the Senator Dun- 
lap, as these two plants appeared 
April 7, last. September 7, ex- 
actly five months to a day after the plants 
were set, the same photographer made pic- 
tures of the same two plants. Figure 3 is 
the Warfield and Figure 4, the Senator Dun- 
turbed until frost, each plant certainly would 
have doubled the number of crowns, as they 
were growing most thriftily when we took 
Fig. 1. Warfield 
plant photo 
Apr. 7, IS 10 
Pig. 2. Dunlap 
plant photo 
Apr. 7, 1910 
Fig, 3. Warfield plant photo Sept. 7, 1910, showing same plant 
aa Fig. 1 after five months' growth. 
lap plant, as they appeared September 7. 
Each of these plants had made four large, 
strong crowns, and had they been left undis- 
Fig. 4. 
Dunlap plant photo Sept. 7. 1910, showing same plant as 
Fig. 2 after five months' growth. 
them up for photographing. These two 
plants received just the same care that was 
given to all of our other plants. 
We think this illustration should convince 
any reasonable person of the truth of our 
contention that the size of the plant is not a 
matter of importance, so long as the plant is 
well bred, as are all Kellogg Thoroughbreds. 
It should be remembered that some varieties 
never make large plants in the propagating 
bed, for it is not their nature to do so. Every 
plant the Kellogg Company sends out is the 
progeny of a mother plant of highest fruiting 
quality, and will build up a large number of 
crowns and a heav}' fruit-bud system when 
given proper care. 
It is only fair to say that in removing plants 
shown in Figures 3 and 4 to have them photo- 
graphed, fully one-third of the fibrous roots 
and practically all of the feeding roots, were 
left in the soil, as it is impossible to remove 
a plant at this sensitive stage of its growth 
and not break off a large per cent, of its roots. 
T^HE most gratifying evidence of the stand- 
ing of the R. M. Kellogg Company in the 
world of scientific horticulture recently has 
come to hand. Under date of August 15, 
1910, J. W. Clark of Le Claire, Iowa, writes 
us as follows: "I wrote both my State and 
United States Departments of Agriculture 
